Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
Change is constant in a progressive country.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
I believe absence is a great element of charm.
Information upon points of practical politics.
Protection is not a principle but an expedient
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
All must respect those who respect themselves.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.